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History Author Show

We’ve all been transported into the past by a special book, place or person. On the History Author Show, host Dean Karayanis and a team of correspondents bring you the people who build the time machin... Read more

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Jane Singer – Lincoln’s Secret Spy

Jane Singer – Lincoln’s Secret Spy

August 24, 2015 - "What is worse? A confederate con man claiming he was Lincoln's spy throughout the Civil War, or the U... Read more

24 Aug 2015

41mins

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Gerald Posner – God’s Bankers

Gerald Posner – God’s Bankers

September 24, 2015 - This is a special, Pope-in-America edition of the History Author Show. Pope Francis began his visit... Read more

24 Sep 2015

46mins

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Kermit Roosevelt – Allegiance

Kermit Roosevelt – Allegiance

November 16, 2015 - Today, we travel back 75 years to a dark period of the Second World War. But the battlefield where l... Read more

16 Nov 2015

39mins

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David Pietrusza – TR’s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

David Pietrusza – TR’s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

October 8, 2018 - Our time machine travels back to America's experience in the Great War through the eyes of former pres... Read more

8 Oct 2018

1hr 27mins

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Adam Higginbotham – Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham – Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

May 6, 2019 - Our time machine travels back to the nuclear nightmare at the Soviet Union's V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Stat... Read more

6 May 2019

55mins

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Daniel L. Mallock – Agony and Eloquence

Daniel L. Mallock – Agony and Eloquence

April 25, 2016 - In this episode, we'll step through the Guardian of Forever and meet two founding fathers who were best... Read more

25 Apr 2016

58mins

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Greg Flemming – At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton

Greg Flemming – At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton

May 8, 2017 - This week, our time machine hoists the Jolly Roger, that notorious black flag with a skull and crossbones ... Read more

8 May 2017

35mins

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Gene Barr – A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign

Gene Barr – A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign

May 15, 2017 - This week, for our 100th interview, our time machine visits some of the most heated fighting -- political... Read more

15 May 2017

45mins

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Tim Brady – His Father’s Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.

Tim Brady – His Father’s Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.

June 5, 2017 - This day after this episode airs is June 6th, the anniversary of the D-Day landings in 1944. This week, o... Read more

5 Jun 2017

48mins

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David Pietrusza – 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents

David Pietrusza – 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents

Featured in The New York Sun - Biden’s Tumble at Air Force Ceremony Stands Out in Long List of History’s Presidential Pr... Read more

10 Feb 2020

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Louis Picone – The President Is Dead!

Louis Picone – The President Is Dead!

July 17, 2017 - This week, the old-time machine leads a funeral procession, starting at George Washington's crypt at Mou... Read more

17 Jul 2017

57mins

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M. Evelina Galang – Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living with War

M. Evelina Galang – Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living with War

March 12, 2018 - Our time machine travels back to the Philippines during the Japanese occupation the Second World War. O... Read more

12 Mar 2018

56mins

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Michael J. Tougias – So Close to Home

Michael J. Tougias – So Close to Home

May 2, 2016 - In this episode, our time machine touches down during the months after Pearl Harbor, as Hitler's U-boats b... Read more

2 May 2016

37mins

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John R. Bohrer – The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK

John R. Bohrer – The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK

June 12, 2017 - This week, we'll visit the turbulent 1960s after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Once there, ... Read more

12 Jun 2017

48mins

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Paul Kahan – The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

Paul Kahan – The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

Jun 17, 2019 - We welcome a familiar passenger back our time machine. It's Dr. Paul Kahan, who we last chatted with abou... Read more

17 Jun 2019

1hr 6mins

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Stephen Davis – All the Fighting They Want

Stephen Davis – All the Fighting They Want

December 11, 2017 - This week, our time machine travels back to the American Civil War in All the Fighting They Want: Th... Read more

11 Dec 2017

56mins

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Kim MacQuarrie – Life and Death in the Andes

Kim MacQuarrie – Life and Death in the Andes

January 18, 2016 - This week, we're flying our time machine across the Equator and into South America's turbulent past, ... Read more

18 Jan 2016

37mins

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